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Evidence-informed urban health and sustainability governance in two Chinese cities

Open Access
|Jun 2021

Figures & Tables

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Figure 1

Central government’s decision-making structure for urban health and sustainability described by interview participants (note the structure is not comprehensive). Institutions provide evidence to ministries and other organisations and departments.

Table 1

Sources of evidence described by participants with specific examples of data and evidence use.

SOURCE OF EVIDENCEEXAMPLES OF DATAEXAMPLE OF EVIDENCE USE
Routine monitoring and surveillance
  • Outdoor air quality (greenhouse gas inventory)

  • Dioxin inventory

  • Long-term meteorological or climate data

  • Health conditions including dietary behaviour, hospital/general practitioner records

  • Informing prioritisation of policy measures

  • Evaluation of policy or demonstration projects

  • Public notifications of high environmental risks (e.g. air pollution)

Sampling
  • Food, water and soil sampled for toxins/bacteria

  • Indoor air quality and radon monitoring (in a limited number of dwellings)

  • Biological samples (blood, urine, nails and hair) tested for toxins

  • Health-protection activities of public health agencies (e.g. closing industries exceeding pollution levels or with contaminated food)

Modelling and forecasting
  • Air quality

  • Urban heat island effect

  • Climate feasibility assessment

  • Land use or energy policy

  • Public notifications of extreme weather

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.90 | Journal eISSN: 2632-6655
Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 16, 2020
Accepted on: May 19, 2021
Published on: Jun 28, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2021 Helen Pineo, Ke Zhou, Yanlin Niu, Joanna Hale, Catherine Willan, Melanie Crane, Nici Zimmermann, Susan Michie, Qiyong Liu, Michael Davies, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.